...year nineteen hundred and thirteen expenses of attendance of officers or employees of the Government at any meeting or convention of members of any society or association shall be incurred only on the written authority and direction of the heads of executive departments...

...the United States or of the District of Columbia in any society or association, or for expenses of attendance of any person at any meeting or convention...for in express terms in some general appropriation.' It is obvious that a close construction of this act may cripple the Department of Agriculture and work...

...States or of tb« District of Columbia in any society or association or for expenses of attendnace of any person at any meeting or convention of members...for in express terms in some general appropriation. This latter provision was subsequently revoked so far as it affected the appropriation for the fiscal...

......... expenses of attendance of any person at any meeting or 1 081, p, .»UoU i • mif • • ^ convention of members of any society or association,...for in express terms in some general appropriation. ***** entSofCc'aXt SEC. 11. Hereafter the Superintendent of the Capitol Ver "diVccMi8- Building and...

...the United States or oi the District of Columbia in any society or association, or for expenses of attendance of any person at any meeting or convention...or expenses are authorized to be paid by specific appropriation for such purposes or are provided for in express terms in 478 THE LIBRARY JOURNAL 479...

...year nineteen hundred and thirteen expenses of attendance of officers or employees of the Government at any meeting or convention of members of any society or association shall be incurred only on the written authority and direction of the heads of executive departments...

...year nineteen hundred and thirteen expenses of attendance of officers or employees of the Government at any meeting or convention of members of any society or association shall be incurred only on the written authority and direction of the heads of executive departments...

...report against the provision of law which forbids the payment from any appropriation of "expenses of attendance of any person at any meeting or convention...for in express terms in some general appropriation." In my report for the year ended June 30, 1914, I said: It surely was not the intention that the law...

...the United States or of the Distri of Columbia in any society or association or for expenses denof attendance of any person at any meeting or convention...appropriations for such purposes or are provided for in express ternis in some general appropriation. (Public Act No. 201, approved June 26, 1912.) at SEC- 10- That...

...the United States or of the District of Columbia in any society or association or for expenses denof attendance of any person at any meeting or convention of members of any society or association, unlesa such fees, dues or expenses are authorized to be paid by specific appropriations for such purposes...